Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Join us at the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden for an open conversation circle about climate justice and the essential role of Indigenous rights and relations with the land in addressing climate change.

Climate Justice is a business responsibility

Climate Change & Energy
Production, Consumption & Waste

Climate+Water Research Symposium

Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources

Solutions Summit: Working Towards Climate Solutions

Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance

Climate Emergency Week

Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.

UBC Reads Sustainability

Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.

SDG Month Canada

SDG Month Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.

Climate Justice Series

In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.

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Past Events

Fri, June 2, 2017 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. SPSS is a user-friendly statistical analysis software that doesn't require you to write any code - SPSS does this for you with just a few clicks. Effective data management is critical to data display and analysis. Once you are...
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Friday, June 2, 2017 - 10:00
Tue, May 30, 2017 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Administration Building. WHERE: University Theatre (ADM 026) Open to the Public Can we plan cities to deal with the consequences of climate change, such as flooding and drought? How can transportation planning and urban planning work together to produce...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 17:30
Tue, May 30, 2017 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Our Research Commons staff will...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 13:30
Tue, May 30, 2017 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE. Do your students have the funds to make their post-secondary dreams a reality? We’re help to help! An education provides a path to a better future. Today, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students are pursuing educational opportunities...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 10:00
Mon, May 29, 2017 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM LIFE SCIENCES CENTRE. Please refer to UBC BMB Website: http://biochem.ubc.ca/
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Monday, May 29, 2017 - 15:00
Sat, May 27, 2017 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Included with museum admission or membership. Drop in between 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. the last Saturday of the month to enjoy a special ecosystem activity for families plus all of our regular museum programming, including puppet shows,...
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Saturday, May 27, 2017 - 10:30
Fri, May 26, 2017 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. SPSS is a statistical analysis, data management and data documentation software. It is used by researchers to gain insights from data, and predict what will happen next. In this introductory-level workshop, you will learn how to...
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Friday, May 26, 2017 - 10:00
Wed, May 24, 2017 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Science Building. Free . Speaker: Dr. Jonas Berking, Freie Universität Berlin Date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Room: SCI 396 Dr Jonas Berking, from the Physical Geography Department of Freie Universität Berlin, will be hosted by the BRAES...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - 12:00
Tue, May 23, 2017 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo's classification capabilities will help you to add demographic data to your nodes and bibliographic data to your sources. Datasets allow you to import and work with tabular material from spreadsheets, database tables,...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 10:30
Mon, May 22, 2017 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM LIFE SCIENCES CENTRE. Please refer to UBC BMB Website: http://biochem.ubc.ca/
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Monday, May 22, 2017 - 15:00

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